Master's Degree - Community Development

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2023 Fall Course Info
Foundations of Community DevelopmentCommunity and Regional Economic Policy and AnalysisPrinciples and Strategies of Community ChangeSustainable CommunitiesCommunity Leadership and Capacity BuildingCommunity Engagement for Civic Change
2024 Spring Course Info
Foundations of Community DevelopmentCommunity Analysis: Introduction to MethodsCommunity and Natural Resource ManagementEvaluation of Organizations and ProgramsGov't, Politics & Community DevelopmentBuilding Native Community and Economic Capacity
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Fall 2023 Course Information
Foundations of Community Development
Course Description
This course is an introduction to the Community Development (CD) program, discipline, and profession.
Contacts
Instructor

Stephanie Davison
sdaviso@ksu.edu

Campus Coordinator

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Disability Support Services

To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.

Textbooks

International Community Development Practice
McConnell, Muia, & Clarke
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 978-0367691240

An Introduction to Community Development
Phillips & Pittman
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 978-0415703550

Toxic Charity: How churches and charities hurt those they help and how to reverse it
Lupton
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 978-0062076212

Course Access
 
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Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

Faculty
University Members
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Andrew Isola is a community development graduate student at K-State.I have worked in the nonprofit arena for many years. The idea of returning to school for my master’s degree was daunting, especially given my typical work schedule of long and varied hours. However, knowing that I could earn my master’s degree in Community Development through Great Plains IDEA and that it would fit around my work and personal needs put me at ease. Multiple times throughout my coursework I have learned a theory, process, or skill one evening, gone to work the next morning, and applied what I learned the night before in my job.

– – Andrew Isola, Community Development Master's Student,
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